Perl & emacs

[Piers Harding]

Hmm - which version of emacs is it?  I have just tried this out on Emacs
21.2.1 - Linux RH 8.0, and it seems fine.

Cheers.


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:07:25PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I typed in something similar (more complex than) the following the other
> day:
> 
> /(foo$)/
> 
> That, I think, is a simple, valid regular expression. But emacs thinks
> the parentheses are mismatched - presumably it thinks that $) is a
> variable (which I believe it isn't in this context).
> 
> I find it hard to believe that no-one would have met this before - is it
> a well known problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
>